Reconstructing individualism
Subtitle: a pragmatic tradition from Emerson to Ellison
By: James M. Albrecht
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: American philosophy
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780823242092
Subjects: Philosophy; Literature and society; American Philosophy; Pragmatism in literature; PHILOSOPHY / Political; Individualism in literature; PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Pragmatism; History; Individualism
Description: "Explores the theories of democratic individualism articulated in the works of the American transcendentalist writer Ralph Waldo Emerson, pragmatic philosophers William James and John Dewey, and African-American novelist and essayist Ralph Ellison"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : "Individualism has never been tried": toward a pragmatic individualism; title: Pt. 1. Emerson; title: What's the use of reading Emerson pragmatically?: the example of William James; title: "Let us have worse cotton and better men": Emerson's ethics of self-culture; title: Pt. 2.  Pragmatism: James and Dewey; title: "Moments in the world's salvation": James's pragmatic individualism; title: Character and community: Dewey's model of moral selfhood; title: "The local is the ultimate universal": Dewey on reconstructing individuality and community; title: Pt. 3. A tragic-comic ethics in the Emersonian vein: Kenneth Burke and Ralph Ellison; title: "Saying 'yes' and saying 'no'": individualist ethics in Ellison and Burke.